Is Short-Term Thinking Hampering Your Career Progress?
Publication: Career Progress | Deliberate Decisions | Short-term Thinking | Taking Accountability
Over the years, I’ve read stories about people who have fabricated elements of their past to land jobs or falsified something to accelerate their career progress. Most recently, there was the case of Jonathan Pruitt – a one time academic star whose research focused on animal personalities and social behaviour. It turns out that much of his […]
Are you really choosing?
Publication: Cognitive Bias | Decision Fatigue | Deliberate Decisions
It’s highly unlikely that you woke us this morning and thought ‘My goal today is to make a really bad decision’. And yet, it can be so easy to make poor decisions. As the field of behavioural economics shows we are not rational beings, and we regularly make imperfect decisions. We make decisions based on […]
Ten tips to master your decision making
Publication: Deliberate Decisions | Leadership Decisions | Master Decision Skills
Einstein is quoted as saying: “If I had an hour to solve a problem, I would spend 55 minutes thinking about the problem and 5 minutes about the solution.” Being the clever person he was, Einstein understood the power of deliberate decisions. He recognised that good decisions don’t typically happen by accident. It’s about leveraging […]